On July 9, the box office of "Source Code" was announced by Red Star Media Company for the first time the next day, which shocked everyone again.

The mainland box office, 190 million, is a crazy achievement, creating many records in the history of the Chinese film box office: the highest single-day box office, the highest next day box office, and the most single-day box office record for a science fiction film. In addition, this result and the 110 million box office on the first day added up, creating a record of breaking 300 million the fastest, breaking 300 million in two days!

In the box office market outside the mainland, although the performance of "Source Code" is not as crazy as the mainland market, it is enough to make people feel amazing.

Calculated in local currency:

Xiangjiang Island, the next day's box office was 5 million;

Mazu Island, 50 million;

Stick Country, 764 million;

the Wa Kingdom, 440 million;

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In two days, the box office of various Asian countries and regions has reached 772 million, which is terrifying!

On the fourth day of release, on July 10, the box office hit another good result, with 120 million in the mainland, 4.5 million in Xiangjiang, 35 million in Mazu Island, 524 million in Bangzi Country, and 320 million ...... in Wa Kingdom, and the cumulative box office climbed to 1.08 billion, with a difference of 20 million exceeding 1.1 billion.

A storm of "Source Code" began to sweep through Asia, sweeping through the box office markets of all countries and regions.

In just three days, "Source Code" climbed to the weekly box office number one in the country or region, breaking one box office record after another, and setting one new record after another!

This storm is even more violent than the storm of "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East", which surprised everyone.

Especially those who were not optimistic about Stephen Zhao making science fiction films before, they were stunned one by one. Be rendered speechless.

For Kazuo Yamamoto, who was the first to jump out and said that the Chinese people couldn't make science fiction films, and ridiculed Stephen Zhao for only knowing how to make martial arts films, this is even more unacceptable. In addition to being dumbfounded, his face was even more earthy, because it suddenly occurred to him that if it weren't for him, he would have nothing to do. Stephen Zhao doesn't know how to make science fiction movies yet.

Now, because of his big mouth, Stephen Zhao is making a science fiction film, and it is a classic as soon as he shoots it, and the box office storm has swept the whole of Asia, which is tantamount to slapping Hollywood and stealing Hollywood's job.

Kazuo Yamamoto can already imagine the accusations of the company's directors for his work. Although these accusations will not make him lose his position, he will want to rise again in the future. The difficulty is about to be doubled.

If the first-day box office of "Source Code" in the mainland relied entirely on publicity, then the first-day box office performance of "Source Code" in Asia and the box office performance on the second day cannot be explained by the phrase "all by publicity". Because from the second day of the film's release, publicity has played a small role, replaced by "word of mouth". The gold and silver cups are not as good as word of mouth, and only good word of mouth will bring those neutral wall-riding factions and those who are not interested in watching movies into the cinema.

There is no doubt that "Source Code" is a box office miracle for three consecutive days. It is enough to prove the strength of word-of-mouth, which also means that the quality of the film has been widely recognized.

"The source code storm has swept across Asia. Nearly 1.1 billion in three days! - "Magic City Weekly"

"Source Code" was born, and domestic science fiction films have entered a new historical period!" ――Yangcheng Daily

"Source Code" tells you what a Chinese-style sci-fi film is!" - "Crooked Entertainment"

“…… There is no doubt that the advent of "Source Code" marks a new path for Chinese science fiction films...... The theme of the film involves the theory of parallel space: the world may diverge and spread out with each decision and choice, corresponding to an infinite number of possible choices. Therefore, in different parallel worlds, it may be that you are dying old or have not yet been born, or you may simply become the discoverer of quantum mechanics itself ......" - "China Youth Daily"

"Challenging the audience's thinking, the domestic sci-fi film "Source Code" wins by plot! The story of the film "Source Code" permeates the theory of parallel space to the audience all the time, but it is under the control of Stephen Zhao. The story fills the viewer with curiosity and a desire to watch, and to think about what it means to be human. Screenwriter and producer Stephen Chiu wants to use the main body of the film to challenge the audience's thinking, make the audience forget the specific characters in the film, and make the audience love the ...... of the film with such a structure" - "New Culture Daily"

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While everyone was paying attention to the next box office performance of "Source Code", Stephen Zhao began to be busy with other things, mainly the preparation of "Gravity".

But before that, he still had to fly to the United States to promote the release of "Source Code" in the United States.

On July 8, the day after the release of "Source Code", Han Minzhong finally negotiated with Lionsgate, the distributor of American imperialism, about the distribution and release of "Source Code" in American imperialism. It's a pity that "Source Code" didn't get the opportunity to be released on a large scale, and Lionsgate only gave a plan, first a small-scale release, see if the box office results are good, and then expand the scale of the release, otherwise, everything will not need to be mentioned.

According to the words of the person in charge of Lionsgate, pure Chinese-language films have always been bad in the US imperialist market, and the "Sunflower Treasure Book" produced by Red Star Media before was seriously hit the street in the US imperialist market, and only received a pitiful more than 60,000 US dollars, they had to take a big risk to release "Source Code", and they were willing to release it, or because there was a cooperative relationship between the two parties, they invested in the Hollywood-style action blockbuster "The King of Kung Fu" together.

flew to the United States with Stephen Zhao to do propaganda, including Wu Chaofan, Zhao Ziyi, and Li Qingxia, and the rest of the crew didn't go, even Zhao Xiaogang.

Zhao Xiaogang was going to shoot his "Cyborg", so he didn't make the trip, and even if he went, he couldn't help much. In the United States, no one knows him at all, even in Asia, not many people know him Zhao Xiaogang, when people see the movies he shoots, they only remember Stephen Zhao, and think that these movies are "Stephen Zhao".

Wu Chaofan is not famous in the United States, but he has apprentices here, and he just took the opportunity to expand his fame.

Zhao Ziyi is a little famous and can add a little topicality, so she came. Of course. As long as you are a smart person, you know that Zhao Ziyi's reputation in the United States is too empty, so false that the United States only remembers her face and thinks she is a beauty, and then there is no more, and she will not go crazy because of her. I won't go to the cinema because of her. To put it simply, Zhao Ziyi is famous, but the box office appeal is almost equal to zero.

Li Qingxia's fame and box office appeal are zero, but Stephen Zhao still brought her on, not asking her to achieve great popularity in the United States, as long as she sees the world and makes some American imperialists or the media of the United States have a little impression of her.

Stephen Zhao did not say these plans. So Li Qingxia was forced by him to go to the US imperialist propaganda, although she was excited, but in fact she was reluctant, until she got on the plane, she still couldn't help but say the question in her heart: "It doesn't matter if I go to the US imperialist propaganda or not, right?" ”

Before Zhao Xingchi could speak, Zhao Ziyi, who was sitting next to her, was surprised: "Don't you want to go?" ”

Li Qingxia nodded and said, "Willing is willing, but I always feel that if I go, it won't play much of a propaganda role." ”

Wu Chaofan, who was separated from her by a seat, said with a smile: "You just think of it as a tour." Just like me, I treat this promotion as a tourist. ”

Li Qingxia laughed out loud. But soon he felt that this was very unladylike, so he immediately covered his mouth.

Zhao Ziyi laughed, but soon laughed at herself: "Don't look at me as a little well-known in the United States, and I was rated as one of the fifty most beautiful faces in the world, but in fact, it is all virtual and useless." There are only superstars like Brother Cheng Jie. It really gained a firm foothold in the United States and had a certain box office appeal. ”

Wu Chaofan said with a little envy: "I don't know if I will have a chance to reach the height of Brother Cheng Jie in the future?" ”

Zhao Ziyi said with a wry smile: "Anyway, I don't have it." But when she said this, her eyes involuntarily glanced at Zhao Xingchi.

Stephen Zhao noticed it keenly and knew what she was thinking, but he remained silent. He didn't seem to notice the look in her eyes at all.

Zhao Ziyi's eyes immediately dimmed, and then she was silent and didn't speak again. Since hearing Cheng Jie's news at the premiere of "Source Code" and knowing that Stephen Zhao is preparing a sci-fi blockbuster, she has been looking for an opportunity to test Stephen Zhao and want to be the heroine. Who knows, although Stephen Zhao admitted that he was indeed preparing a sci-fi blockbuster and was already going to cooperate with NASA, he had been tempted to play the heroine.

The look in her eyes just now was just a small move by her unwillingness, but what she got was Zhao Xingchi's coldness. Obviously, the heroine that Stephen Zhao likes is not her.

Li Qingxia didn't say a word for a while, she didn't know what she was thinking, and when Zhao Ziyi finished speaking, she said: "Brother Wu is still so young, there will definitely be a chance in the future." The tone was full of comfort, but I didn't know if I was comforting Wu Chaofan or herself.

"Thank you!" Wu Chaofan glanced at her gratefully.

After such a distraction, Li Qingxia also forgot the question she wanted to ask and stopped talking.

Zhao Xingchi smiled slightly, and suddenly leaned into her ear and whispered: "Why do you also want to participate in the propaganda of the US imperialists, and tell you when you return to Huaxia, and then give you a surprise." ”

A hot breath blew into her face and ears, which made Li Qingxia so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and suddenly Xia Fei turned her cheeks away with a shy, pursed her lips tightly and did not speak.

Zhao Ziyi and Wu Chaofan glanced at each other, their expressions were very strange, and they both thought: "It turns out that the scandal that went viral is true, and the two of them really have a leg!" ”

The two couldn't hear what Zhao Xingchi said, but they could see Li Qingxia's shy reaction, she was simply a little girl in love.

Li Qingxia didn't notice their gaze, and there was only one thought in her mind: "He wants to surprise me?" What surprises? ”

Zhao Xingchi smiled strangely, and then leaned back on his seat and began to sleep.

I don't know when, the plane suddenly shook, and then a sweet female voice came, first in English, and then in Mandarin: "Passengers, Los Angeles International Airport has arrived ......" (to be continued......